The sky on February 2, 1951 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Capricornus, while the horoscope says "Aquarius". The gap is 23.2° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 312.8° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon — 260.9° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 290.0° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 332.1° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 338.6° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 341.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 182.0° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 19% illuminated
astronomy-engine ephemerides (VSOP87/ELP), IAU 1930 constellation boundaries. Positions accurate to a fraction of a degree.
The day’s dossier, from real data
Checkable facts with a tag and a source; the classical reading is in the chart.
- The Moon that day [EXACT]
waning crescent, 19% lit; the Moon was 365,656 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
75.7 orbits of the Sun — 71,119 million km, that is 92,506 return trips to the Moon; 27,640 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 549.3 billion km around the Galactic centre, 21.2 light-days.
29.78 km/s along the orbit; 230 km/s around the Galactic centre - Mars then and now [EXACT]
On that day Mars was 330 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer by 1.4×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on March 15, 2028; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — February 1, 2045
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,780″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.2° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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